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| acute chest pain that occurs when myocardial demand exceeds its oxygen supply |
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| in competent aortic valve that allows backward flow of blood into left ventricle during diastole |
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| calcification of aortic valve cusps that restricts forward flow of blood during systole |
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| 5th left intercostal space |
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| cup-shaped endpiece used for soft, low pitched heart sounds |
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| less than 50 beats per min |
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| occurs with chronic cyantoic heart and lung sounds |
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| swelling of legs or dependent body part due to increased interstitial fluid |
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| traditional ausculatory area in the 3rd left intercostal space |
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| the addition of a 3rd or 4th heart sound makes the rhythm sound like the cadence of a galloping horse |
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| LVH (left ventricular hypertrophy) |
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| increase in thickness of myocardial wall that occurs when the heart pumps against chronic outflow obstruction (i.e. aortic stenosis) |
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| (mitral insufficiency) incompetent mitral valve allows regurgitation of blood back into left atrium during systole |
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| calcified mitral valve impedes forward flow of blood into left ventricle during diastole |
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| opposite of normal split S2 so that the split is heard in expiration and in inspiration the sounds fuse to one sound |
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| high-pitched scratchy extracardiac sound heard when the precordium is inflamed |
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| normal variation in S2 heard as two separate components during inspiration |
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| backflow of blood through incompetent pulmonic valve into RV |
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| calcification of pulmonic valve separating RV and pulmonary artery |
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| temporary loss of consciousness due to decreased cerebral blood flow (fainting) |
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| greater than 100 beats per min |
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| palpable vibration on the chest wall accompanying severe heart murmur |
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| the area on the anterior chest wall overlying heart and great vessels |
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| abnormal finding for estimated jugular venous pressure |
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| patient elevated 45 degreess, internal jugular vein pulsation at 4 cm above sternal angle |
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| second left intercostal space |
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